Pistoia in Virtus Bologna’s den: Dante Calabria must clear one last doubt

Sunday night there'è Virtus Bologna-Pistoia

It will be a special challenge between Virtus Bologna and Estra Pistoia: the two head coaches, Luca Banchi and Dante Calabria, have a common past, since in the 2000/2001 season the current coach of the biancorossi played in Trieste and on the bench sat the very man who has been leading, since last season, the Vu Nere.

"To Banchi I can only pay great respect,” Calabria said during the presentation of Sunday night’s 8 p.m. match. For me, it will be a bit strange to be on the bench of a coach like him: è he was my coach in Trieste when he was at the beginning of his career and in these years I have always followed what he did, getting important results".

The Pistoia coach still has a doubt to solve, concerning which foreigners to keep out of the Unipol Arena trip: "We have not yet decided,” he said, “we are making evaluations and have to make choices, but we will make the final decision only on Sunday morning".

In the Virtus household, however, the pre-game è was entrusted to assistant coach Daniele Parente: "We face Pistoia less than 48 hours after the Euroleague game against Efes – he said -, we will have to be ready to prepare this kind of games regardless of the opponent, because it will happen often during the season a similar situation. The key to the game will come down to our defensive transition and how disciplined we can be on offense".